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red13n posted...

Nah we could fuck over our economy big with a few major cities. But our country is too entrenched in shitty ideals about capitalism. So many people are convinced those above them are looking out for them.

If people don't see the protest they will not care and attribute it to whatever their preferred media tells them to think about it. People in Iowa are not going to be moved by an LA general strike, regardless of the economic impact. The conservatives there will just continue talking about how much CA sucks. It really is a problem with how big the country is.

Not to mention coordinating a general strike in one major city is hard enough-- doing it in several that are spread out across the country is much harder if not impossible.

And it isn't just that people are too entrenched in their love of capitalism that prevents a general strike. It's that too many people can't afford to lose their job-- social safety nets here are so bad that it's much harder to convince people to risk their livelihood, especially when so many are living paycheck to paycheck.